Oh Monday

Here we are - monday.

Odd weekend. Lots of working at the shop, staying just ahead of the sold bikes. Tweeting doubts about training and prep for the 210 mile gravel race and getting unexpected support from Matt Roy one of the best most experienced long mileage riders. That was awesome. Absolutely turned my headspace around.

That day I went to Road Tubeless. My finger is still sprained from the effort. I really am not looking forward to the next flat with these tires but hey - I'll deal with it then. Took a lot of work and bead jack to get them mounted. But they snapped in place and seated w/less than 20 psi and no sealant.

I have to say I am very impressed with the Bontrager TLR system. Shit just fucking works.

But that alloy cassette body on the Aeolus Pro 3V wheels? ugh, after less than a month the cassette was jammed into the splines.

The 28s are not the most supple of 28s but they work and have held air really well. And are a lot faster than the 45s that were there. Hoping to bump the mileage and saddle time with this bike going into the end of June, might test the limits of a 38t ring on Smackdown. Can I survive? maybe. We'll see.

Quiet Desperation def rings true

I've been reading more of the old blog links from the bookmarks. The old open all in a folder. Lots of dead links. I suppose I should edit them down again, re-sort once more.

It is good though, may need to try and find a bit more new content. My phone being kind of useless is good, but not good. I def need it, and use it. I can still use it but that's not quite the same.

I should probably add this page to the reading list - also a good reminder about sleep:
https://www.tobedetermined.cc/journal/2019/4/the-daily-grind-the-importance-of-sleep

not too bad right now - slightly caught up, it seem sitting and watching TV is more restful than doing stuff. And I watched some TV this weekend. Def need to keep working on clawing back to the more rested side of things and not so coffee dependent.

Had a good but strained text exchange with someone that I haven't talked to in a while, made me think maybe a clean break from the past is good. Maybe burning the bridge and building a damn down stream and flooding the valley is the best way to keep it in the past.

Maybe.

Time to suck down some food before sorting out the new microscope, and man this finger is hurting typing. Stupid tubeless tires.

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